Sweden 2012

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In rape you are third as a percentage of population and tied with Finland for that ranking. 1.1% of the Swedish population are rape victims. Considering that it is almost all females that makes it even a higher likelihood of being raped. That is about 104500 victims.

I don't want to get into the Swedish immigration debate right now because it's going to take too much of my time, but I just want to point out a couple of facts regarding Swedish rape statistics. One important explanation for the high Swedish rape rates is the fact that Swedish rape laws since 2005 are more including than the laws of most other countries. Cases that earlier would have been classified as sexual exploitation are now classified as rape. Since 2005, the numbers of charges for sexual exploitation have decreased and those for rape have increased.

You can read about the Swedish statistics for rape and sex offence here (an article in English at the website of the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention) if you are interested. Another factor that they point out, which I think is very important, is a growing tendency to report rape crimes to the police (probably due to increased gender equality among other things). Of course Sweden doesn't have the third most rapes in the world. The claim that Sweden has more rapes than, say, Congo is of course completely absurd.

I don't know where you looked up the statistics, but Nationmaster presents the same statistics and is the top hit on Google, so I suppose that's your source. If you look at the bottom of the page you'll see the claim that "Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence."

Furthermore, Finland - our neighbouring country that has the same rape percentage as Sweden - barely has any immigration at all.


EDIT: Horetore got ahead of me at some parts, but whatevs.